days in this forecast. we'll have full details coming up. bob? >> 5:00 o'clock straight up on a tuesday morning, looking live at the 42 freeway, light volume so far this morning for the gang coming in toward philadelphia. couple of problems in the neighborhood. we'll check in with mass transit coming up next. good morning. >> bob, thanks, good morning. new this morning, investigators are trying to pinpoint what sparked an apartment fire in northeast philadelphia. the flames broke out just before midnight at the grand meadows apartment the 3100 block of grant avenue. no one was hurt, but as you can see, that apartment did suffer some heavy damage. a stray bullet narrowly miss as sleeping toddler in delaware count. >> i police say that bullet landed just a few inches above the child's crib. "eyewitness news" reporter syma chowdhry joins us now, at the darby borough police department with more on this very close call. syma? >> reporter: that's right, police are looking for the people responsible for a stray bullet nearly hitting a toddler sleeping in his crib. right now, police are searching through surveillance

video and hoping to talk with eyewitnesses, to catch the two gunmen. a crib is supposed to be a safe place, but sunday night, the dangers of the outside world came close to hitting a three year old boy sleeping. the shooting happened around 11:00 at night near the intersection of sixth and walnut st. police describe the gunman as two men in their late teens, early 20's. there were number of 9-millimeter shell casings at the scene. but, police say, the stray bullet hit a block away, going through a wall at the boat house apartments. >> people fire weapons, and don't understand where that round is going to go after they fire it. >> i don't want to see any kid, anybody, really, get hurt. >> janice davis is related to the boy. she is also the president of the darby borough council. she was frightened to learn the bullet was only inches away from the child. >> that was migrate grandson, if he had stood up, he might not be here today. >> neighbors are outraged the gun violence has increase in the their neighborhood. >> i could have woke up to one of my kids not breathing, you

understand what i am saying? >> but there has got to be a bert way to work things out instead every using a gun. >> police say there was homicide about a week ago, in that same area, where the sunday shooting took place, and they're trying to see if there is possible connection with that. live in darby borough, syma chowdhry, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> syma, thank you. plea from the mother of gloucester township man critically injured in a hit-and-run. she wants the driver that hit her son to come forward. vehicle hit kevin trans in gloucester township. walking home from his job at a pizza shop. ' cents punctured lung and broken bones. his mother said he remembers the hit-and-run. >> he actually said that he was crossing the road and he felt as if the car was trying to speed up to hit him. >> he was able to call the pizza shop for help. someone there called 911. police have not description of the vehicle. so they hope the public can

help. coming up on 5:03. our traffic and weather together on the 3's, and katie is outside. >> pretty comfortable, i have to say, very modest breeze out here, still technically coming out of the north for most every us. it will shift with time. when you get a shift in wind flow, more than anything, it can help ring in some milder or colder air or some more moisture-rich or some drier air, casino of just depends, so northerly breeze, get the winds coming out every canada basically helps keep the dry more comfortable nare place at least this time of year, whereas once we start to see this one shift, storm scan3 will remain empty, but you're going to start to notice the up tick in humidity. where we stand currently, low 60s generally around the board, mid 60s out toward wilmington, hand full of you actually still in the 50's. but in philadelphia, we haven't budgeted rollie in the last couple of hours, 70 continues to be our current temperature at the airport. we are into the mid and lower 60s, just outside of philadelphia. through the course of the day, though, here's where we will top off. we expect that high to get

into the mid and upper 80s around philadelphia, at the shore, upper 70s expected in the poconos, lots of sunshine for you, keeping that sun it looks like for the better part of the week. so that's only going to allow things to continue to heat up about us with high pressure in place for couple of days. so today in place, tomorrow in place, but on wednesday we are going to be tracking this next cold front. kind of whimpy by comparison to other larger fronts that have come through. but we will feel the steam it, will heat up to about 90 by that point, and maybe help touch off just spotty shower or storm toward tomorrow night. so, bob, for now, it is looking good. >> sounds good. common inside, grab a coffee. 5:04, looking good on the roadways, light volume so far. we begin our tuesday morning, some of the kid went back to school yesterday. so three cheers for the bus drivers, look out in the neighborhood, if your township or community, the kids went back to school, of course, the little ones out there. you will see some unusual traffic patterns start to develop, not only this week, but certainly next week, when the rest of the gang goes back

to school. live look here, 422, coming around the curb near trooper, light volume, this downtown we go, vine expressway there is fellow coming across town heading for 95, again, light volume. the roads are dry. how much, we're not dry over here in glassboro. overnight water main break, route 47, right at high street, you may remember yesterday we were closed up here at that stretch because after crash. this morning, we're closed because after water main break almost in that same area. and in lansdale, the bethlehem pike, route 309, southbound lanes are blocked at line lexington road from early mourn crash. crews still working on the boulevard, northbound, between third up to tyson avenue with that reconstruction project. erika, back to you. >> bob, thank you. developing right now, former fbi director louie free remains in a hospital, following single car crash in vermont. investigators say, it appears freeh drove his suv off the road and hit a tree. we're told his injuries are serious.

you may remember that freeh was hired by penn state to examine how the school handled the jerry sandusky case. the national transportation safety board wants to know what caused mosquito helicopter crash in cape may county. chopper owned by the county's mosquito control department made a hard landing yesterday morning in cape may courthouse. they were doing weekly observations, in the salt marsh when the chopper went down, nearly missed an house and a soccer field. >> it is all the sudden we heard this noise, like the rotors hitting the trees it, sounded like somebody was cutting brush with a big brush cutter. and then all the sudden it went down, the noise stopped. both the pilot and passenger suffered minor injuries. well, as you know, drinking and driving is a dangerous beginning. delaware county man apparently with too much to drink had his nephew take the wheel. the problem, his never ooh is only eight years old. "eyewitness news" reporter nicole mcclaren picks up the

story. >> reporter: police say 58 year old clarence hairston chose his eight year old nephew to be hess designated driver in broad daylight. cords willing to the affidavit the boy sat on hairston's lap steering up and down upper darby side streets, all while hairston drank a 25-ounce can of beer. his other nine year olds nephew was bouncing around in the back seat without a seatbelt. >> i would have rather seen the kid take the car than drive away. >> superintendent of police michael chitwood said one of the officers was on patrol when they noticed hairston anthem driving recklessly, blocking traffic at the intersection of gill forward and coply roads. it was just steps away from hairston's home here on little cross road where police were finally able to apprehend him. >> the owner of the car was so drunk he couldn't get out of the car without assistance. >> reporter: we visit add woman who calls herself hairston's fiancee, she said he would never put his nephews in danger. >> no, no, not like that. >> then quickly closed the door on our cameras. police say hairston was

supposed to be babysitting his never use. fortunately, they were returned to their mother without a scratch. >> not only could he have endangered those two children in the car, apparently were his nephews, but co-have endangered an entire community. >> hairston arrested on 11 counts including d. i, endangering the welfare after child. remains behind bars with a $15,000 cash bail. in upper darby, noel mcclaren, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". your time now 5:08. damage from the earthquake that shook up the napa valley could reach $1 billion. this morning, we're getting closer look at one of the homes burned to the grounds. >> also, ahead, it is hard to fathom a subway train going the wrong way on the wrong track in new york. >> and crime fighting nail political thayer could help fend off a sexual assault. katy? >> ukee it, looks like some great beach weather coming up. but that's just it, looks can be very deceiving. we have a hurricane on our hands, my friends, and the

impact from it may pose some risks at the shore. we'll talk about it on the other side. >> ♪ >> looking live outside, warm up on the way, according to katie, fun if you like the heat. >> speaking of fun, can't wait to see the forecast for the weekends, though, because weaver the made in america festival. >> that's right, labor day weekend. oh, man, that crept up on us. >> i was in the art museum area, i forgot all about it until i saw them building the stage. it is on its way this weekend. we'll check the forecast, we'll check the roads. good morning, family, glad you're with us, back in a bit. >> ♪

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>> check out unbelievable video from south korea flashfloods brought on by heavy rain swept away this bus full of passengers. see how quickly it becomes submerged. this is rushing through the muddy water, as horrified eyewitnesses look on. bbc news agency reports that one person is confirmed dead, and four others are still missing. scary. burned to the ground, this is what a mobile home park in nap a california looks like following sunday's magnitude at 6.0 earthquake. now, this is all that remains. authorities say that quake snapped gas lines, igniting a blaze. when first responders got there, there was no water pressure due to broken mains. so firefighters had no way to put out the flames. one neighbor couldn't believe his eyes. >> well, there was allowed, loud explosion. at least it sounded like an explosion. and a big hard shake. that's why it didn't feel like an earthquake. it felt like a plane crash. and i came out.

i saw the flames. i thought a plane has hit the park. >> three homes were destroyed, but, fortunately, everyone got out safely. 5:13. we want our traffic and weather together. brace yourself today for a hot one, katy? >> absolutely, still will be a great day out there, but you might need that air conditioner finally. i mean, it is late august. we did expect that the temperatures would start to rebounds little bit as we would creep up on labor day weaken here, looking at storm scan3, still pretty quiet. high pressure wednesday again in place. right before the break we talked about cristobal. that's our latest tropical name storm. and it is currently a hurricane, a category one, it reached category one status here, through the last 24 hours, and it still is moving relatively slow, but starting to gain some forward momentum. what's good the models continue to keep this well out to sea, looks like it will continue to speed up and basically maintain its strength. pretty warm water it will be running into before finally starts to diminish. so it even skips past atlantic, canada, good for them, as well, but what

happens of course here in our area shore points is that the rip countries being and the surf starts to get little bit more elevated, more choppy, we do have surf today, expected, you know, get nothing higher than 3 feet, but moderate risk for the rip currents. please be careful, and always swim near them if you take a dip in the wavesment it will be a day where you probably want to do. that will ragweed, nettle, chenopod hi, quiet forecast for us, the eyewitness weather seven day pair of eight's, expected high today. sunny, steamy, not oppressive. but you will probably start to notice that humidity creeping up. tomorrow the hottest day with that high hitting 09 gross for at least one day, then we drop off. that will weak cold front comes through, helps to keep cristobal out to sea, as well, and we were talking about that made in america festival coming up for the weekends, saturday looks good, sunday maybe showers, storms, monday though looks like best shot for anything significant. bob? >> going to be hot tomorrow. water slide wednesday, at ukee's house. >> water slide wednesday?

>> water slide wednesday, you didn't know that? >> i didn't know it. news to me. >> more details on our website. outside we go, to 95, right near the philly international airport, where they are still working here, this right lane taken out. see the bumm up there? see the headlights? that's example of the paving, that right lane, still with that rocky surface, and they're doing that both north and southbound, on i-95. maybe another half hour before they throw the cones in the back of the truck. live look at the schuylkill into and out of downtown, no problems here on the martin luther king drive. open for business. but we have an accident along the bethlehem pike. the southbound side blocked at line lexington road. use county line road this morning. and for the gang leaving the house in delaware, north on route one, just north at i-95, watch for an accident. for the gang coming up from say the delaware beaches, this morning, septa, using shuttle bus this is morning, on the route ten trolley, same deal on the 15 trolley, the entire route. otherwise mass transit looking

good with no delays. erika, back over to you. >> here are your headlines today. no injuries but some damage in an apartment fire on the 3100 block every grant avenue in northeast philadelphia. there is in word right now on what sparked that fire. police are is her clinic for two suspects after a stray bullet comes frighteningly close to three year old, asleep in a crib. happened sunday night in darby borough, delaware county. the child was not injured. and, 23 year old kevin trent face as long recovery after a hit-and-run sunday night. it happened in sicklerville, camden county. police say the hit-and-run vehicle likely has front end damage, and possibly a shattered windshield. your time now 5:16. it cock become the next big thing foreman cures. coming up: how until polish could help prevent date rape. >> and it is just horrifying to watch. but this young boy actually gets up and walks away after getting run over by an s.u.v. how he survived, oh, my goodness, that's coming up.

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>> would you believe that six year old boy walked away from that? child in china playing in the street when an s.u.v. drove right over him. the boy went to the hospital for treatment of minor scratches to his face and legs. the driver reportedly told police that he did not see the child. but, fortunately, that child was small enough, blessed enough that nothing happened. wow, that's amazing. well, mayor bill deblass yo is ordering security review of all new york city bridges after a russian tourist climbs on top of the brooklyn bridge. let's show you him walking down the cable snapping pictures with a cell phone. now, police say the man told him he did it for fun. he faces criminal charges, after learning that a security breach is no laughing matter. world-wide looking at this saying hey, here we go, yet another case, simple people just going up therefore fun to

take pictures of it reaching a maximum security site. what could we do, with all of our resources, all of our training. >> well, last month you may remember two american flags on the brooklyn bridge were swamped with white ones. two german artists are taking credit for that. new york city subway conductor and operator are off the job this morning, while authorities try to figure out how a train wound up on the wrong track. the manhattan transit authority admits that's what happened on august 11, when the a train was rerouted because of signal problems. reports say the operator was told to go uptown, but, started outgoing the wrong direction, and on the wrong set of tracks. they kept ongoing, too, for several stops. >> back up on the same track, it could cause a real, real hazard. >> mta should do -- should do something about that, because somebody could have seriously got hurt. >> i think it is pretty shock ago train would go the wrong way. >> now, the train was, again,

saferly rerouted, but ride remembers expressing concern about the safety of the new york city subway. you can understand that when you hear wrong track, wrong direction. >> oh, yes, yes, yes. well, your nail polish may soon be able to do more than just make a fashion statement. >> it could now help prevent sexual assault. the innovative new polish cans undercover colors would change color when it is ex position today date rape drugs. it was developed by a group of north carolina college students. the product is still being tested and is not available for purchase at the moment. however, what a great idea? >> i'm telling you. >> unfortunately, in college, you know, something you drink? >> great minds developed that. that's fantastic. >> great thinking. well, parade plans are released for the taney dragons. we'll have that for you next in sports. >> also, the hottest stars from tv are honored at the emmies, but julia dreufuss got more tan just a statue when her name was called. the kiss everyone's talking about, oops, hang on, we're giving it away. all right, more of this make

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>> it has been an awfully cool august thus far. here is just a couple of spots, where we stand right now, in the live neighborhood network, trenton, oxford, reading, cinnaminson, all checking into the low or mid 60s right now. so it is a tad milder than it was this same time yesterday. so we heat up little more readily today. check it out, bob, you got an a-plus pool day. so whether you are hitting school or you're hitting the pool it, looks ike a great day for it. 88 degrees, with sunshine, and it isn't terribly humid. just nice warm summer day. bob? >> problem i'm supposed to be in school, but i'm in the

pool. that's the problem. >> first day of school, first week, and already cutting class. 5:25, oh, it will be one of those years. live look, the ben franklin, keep in mind, gang, only three lanes coming into philadelphia. so, as we get into the crunch time, be ready for delays in the benny. may have gotten caught yesterday. think about it today using betsy or whitman as your alternate. no problems up and down 95, mass transit, looking good. here's ukee now with a look at sports. >> eagles have one pre-season game left, thursday night against the new york jets mike vick is expected to start for the new yorkers. meanwhile eagles back up quarterback mark sanchez is discounting recent trade rumors, cough after the rams lost sam bradford for the season with a knee. but sanchez insists he's very happy right here. >> i'm not even worried about it, i have plenty of things to

correct. you know? studying, mastering the system, i got a long way to go. we'll just keep plugging away, get ready for to help these guys better playing thursday for the jets. i won't deal with hypothetical. aim eagle, i love ac eagle, that's all i have to say about it. >> enough said. codey ninth homerun of the season gave the phils a lead on the first place nationals last night, and the phils hung onto win. carlos ruiz, had homerun later, and a.j. burnett hitting, struck out season hi, 12 batters, and the phils beat the nats three-two. cole hamels takes the hill tonight as the phils go for their third win in a row. hey, got little bit after last week, now there is more, eyewitness spots direct or beasley reese sitting in for angelo cataldi, and sister radio station 94wip. talk sports with beasley, rhea, it starts in about three and a half minutes. hope beasley is up and hey,

work that late shift, you snow. >> working on like two hours of sleep, poor guy. >> he is there, going to have fun. the city of philadelphia saluting hometown taney dragons with parade down broad street. >> so hey. powered in part by the pitching of mo'ne davis, the dragons made it all the way to the u.s. championship semifinals. now, no other philadelphia little league team has made it to williamsport. wednesday's parade will start at 2:00 in the afternoon at 20th and market. in center city. it is going to go around city hall, then down south broad street. the first stop is the kimmel center for performance by the philly pops. that parade makes its second stop at broad and washington where the mummers will perform. party then wraps up at fdr park. the phils will also honor the dragons before wednesday night's game at citizens bank park. so happy we are celebrating them like this. >> i think that's the route the phillies took in 2008. i believe it is we'll check it out of love a parade. everybody, let's get throughout.

>> mummers, the pops, everybody will be out there. >> showing some love. "eyewitness news" this morning, warning for police, women being attacked in one local neighborhood. syma? >> reporter: police are investigating after a stray bullet narrowly misses a toddler, sleeping in his crib. i'm syma chowdhry, with that ab o course bob and katie return with your traffic and weather together. we do it on the 3's, back at the bottom of the hour. good morning.

a stray bullet miss as toddlers by inches. now, asking for the pun's help to track down that gun may. story has the whole neighborhood onle